your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. "special report" online. some interesting discussion there starts right now. >> shepard: this is the fox report. breaking now, a shooting at an army post has the entire place locked down. breaking news coverage just ahead. also, another disaster for the carnival cruise ship triumph. the same ship that was stranded in the gulf with no working toilet has now broken loose from its boring. men overboard and a worker is missing. plus, is somebody marking prosecutors for murder? we have seen two killed so far. a violent white supremacist gang suspected in the murders. now, another prosecutor abandoning a case against the aryan brotherhood. >> i understand why someone would want to step back.

>> tonight, threats, fallout and a hunt for the gunman. it was an unbelievable injury. a basketball player breaking his leg during a game. >> i saw my leg. it was kind of like this can't be real. >> shepard: kevin ware down on the sidelines in agony while his teammates crouched in horror. now, for the first time, we are hearing fromware himself. >> how are you feeling, kevin? >> good. thank you. >> shepard: about the moment it happened. >> honestly, i felt no pain. >> and his plan to travel from the final four to cheer on the cardinals. plus, jody arias admits she murdered her lover. she says it was in self-defense. but her parents say their daughter had some issues. >> jodi has mental problems. she would freak out all the times. tonight the police interviews with a killer's mom and dad. but first from fox this wednesday night. investigators in the state of texas have now arrested a man for making a terrorist threat against an

official. that development as they try to figure out who is going around killing state prosecutors. and whether there is a connection, a connection to a violent white supremacist prison gang known as the aryan brotherhood. over the weekend, the kaufman county, texas, district attorney and his wife turned up dead. back in january, somebody shot and killed that d.a.'s deputy on the same day that the feds announced his office was working on a case against that prison gang, the aryan brotherhood. and just last month, investigators said a number of -- i should say a member of a white supremacist gang killed the head of colorado's prison system. that suspect later died in a shootout with deputies in texas. now, investigators say the arrests they have just made in texas is so far not linked to any of these killings, not officially, not yet. the suspect is somebody whom they say threatened another official and no question officials are starting to get worried. in fact, in houston, an assistant u.s. attorney has just withdrawn himself from a racketeering case against the aryan brother hood. he is not saying why.

but the reporter who broke the story says it's pretty clear. >> yesterday morning, he sent an email to all of the prosecutors in that case withdrawing any specifically cited security concerns. now, i have talked to a number of defense attorneys involved in that case, and they all say did he not elaborate on those security concerns. but they all believe it must be related to the events that have occurred in kaufman county. >> shepard: so we have a situation in which somebody is murdering prosecutors. a white supremacist group may have connections to the crimes. one prosecutor just pulled himself off a case citing security issues. and somebody is accused of making terrorist threats against an official. there is a lot going on. and dan springer begins our coverage following it all from coffman, texas, what more do we know about this arrest that took place today. >>? shep, 56-year-old nic more relevant was arrested on tuesday after police say he called a tip line and said that another public official would be next. he apparently tried to block that number. but police were able to get to him.

he is being held on a million-dollar bond. the only criminal convictions we could find why were back in the early 1990s for unlawfully carrying a weapon and writing a bad check. police have not connected him to the murders. >> at this time there is nothing to link mr. morale to the murders of mike and cynthia mcclelland or mark hasy. >> so investigators are still contacting people who may have a grudge against the d.a.'s office. we now know that this man, eric williams, a former justice of the peace in kaufman county met with cops just hours after the murders were discovered. they took his cell phone and tested his hands for gun residue. williams lost his job and his law license after being convicted of theft. his attorney says he has nothing to hide and is not guilty of this crime. >> shepard: dan, are authorities saying anything publicly about a possible connection to this aryan brotherhood? >> yeah. they are saying almost nothing about their investigation. of course, this aryan brotherhood connection or possible connection has been out there because the d.a.'s office got a big

conviction of a leader last year and they were part of a federal task force that secured 34 indictments. but there has been no hard evidence revealed. meantime, we know there is a public memorial set for the plk cleaned's tomorrow afternoon. shep? >> shepard: dan springer live for us, coffman, texas tonight. the shootings have not ended there. we have new reports of another deadly assault in colorado at the home of a prosecutor and a sheriff's deputy. the coroner there said this man was behaving erratically outside the couple's century old house in northern colorado. investigators said some kind of fight broke out after that stranger tried to get inside the house. somebody fired shots. and the stranger died as the story goes. both the husband and wife were also hurt. >> injuries were minor, but this was a very aggressive altercation. this gentleman was acting very erratically and he was observed by the folks involved in this as well as others. >> shepard: the coroner did not reveal who fired shots that killed the stranger. investigators say there is

no apparent tie to any of those other shootings in colorado and texas. at least for now. they say the stranger had recently traveled to colorado from michigan, apparently looking for work. remember, police said that colorado prison chief who died after he answered his front door last month and a gunman promptly shot him dead. now there is breaking news coming in. the place is fort knox army post in kentucky it is on lockdown as fox reports tonight after reports of a shooting there that happened this afternoon. details are just coming. in we have no word yet on any victims. but a spokesman says fort knox is 100% on lockdown. he says the shooting unfolded near the human resources command, which price some 3800 people. we're waiting for more updates live as we get them. well, maybe the carnival cruise ship triumph is just cursed. hours ago that cruise liner broke loose to from its morings and smacked into another ship. somebody went overboard. actually, multiple people and now a worker is miss not guilty water.

can you see some damage there on the right side of your screen. see the highlighted area? the cruise wind blames high winds up to 70 miles per hour for tearing loose the ship. one worker describes what he saws. >> we was on the ship working and looked across and the roops started breaking on the carnival triumph. two of them broke real fast and the rest of them it was just snap, snap, one after another it was kind of slow. once the last one broke it, looked like somebody was driving the boat. >> shepard: those same high winds apparently knocked a guard shack into the water with two guards inside. one of them is safe but the coast guard is still looking for the other. the carnival triumph is the same ship that lost fire after a fire in february and spent days stuck in the gulf. thousands of passengers stranded aboard the floating cesspool with raw sewage in the halls and not enough food. another nightmare today. jonathan serrie is tracking developments from our newsroom tonight. 70 mile-per-hour winds that's almost hurricane force. >> it is, indeed. those winds came

dangerously close to hurricane force. while they were strong enough to knock over that guard shack, injuring one and causing another to go missing in the water, those were ho were actually on board the ship as it was blown from its morings are apparently okay. a spokesman tells fox news we can confirm all crew members and contractors have been accounted for. wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour. that according to carnival, shep? >> shepard: i guess they left n mobile to service it after that disaster of a cruise? >> exactly. you recall back in february a fire caused the ship to lose power, knocked out its generator. it had to be tugged into the port of mobile for passengers to disembark. the ship after that had been brought into wet dock at baa systems in mobile to undergo repairs and upgrades. today, new damage was visible to the ship's stern. carnival says it's looking into it as of now there are no delays or cancellations. the ship is still scheduled to return to service on june 3rd.

shep? >> shepard: jonathan serrie in our southeast bureau in atlanta, thanks. north korea has put the white house on notice today. it now claims it has approved a nuclear attack on the united states. now the pentagon is taking new steps to protect americans. is this bluster or something more? in washington, they are preparing for the worst. and the man hunt for two prisoners would ho broke out of jail in texas. police say they're fugitives, that they're dangerous, that they may be running in their underwear. and the live update on our breaking news. a shooting at fort knox that has the entire army post on lockdown. we're waiting for breaking news updates from the journalists of fox news on this wednesday fox report. the age old question. what do women want?

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>> shepard: continuing coverage of breaking news out of fort knox in kentucky where a spokesman says that army post is on 100% lockdown after a shooting there this afternoon. "the fox report's" correspondent jonathan hunt with a live update for us.

jonathan? >> shep, very few details on this so far. what we know from ryan bruce, who is with fort knox public affairs is that the entire base is on lockdown. this is a quote from ryan bruce: the post is on lockdown. it is 100% on lockdown. the shooting apparently happened earlier this afternoon in the vicinity of the human resources command on the fort knox army post. the command by the way employs about 3800 people but is just a small part of the fort knox army post. that covers in total 109,000 acres across three counties in kentucky. the fort knox post has a population of more than 40,000 soldiers, family members, and civilian employees. you can just imagine what a huge job this is to put that kind of army post on lockdown. just to emphasize, shep, we

do not have any word on casualties, any fatalities whatsoever at this point. but the base, once again, 100% on lockdown according to the public affairs office there, shep. >> shepard: jonathan, thanks. waiting for video and live reports from the ground there on post and we'll bring you that as we get it. first though, schools went on lockdown for a second day today as teams searched for a murder suspect and a convicted drug criminal who broke out of jail in east texas investigators say the inmates ran through a recreation yard to freedom yesterday and then ditched their jail house uniforms outside othe fence. according to the sheriff's office the ground search started up again this morning after a rainy night in sulfur springs, texas, north and east of dallas. no word yet on any capture. the man on the left here is facing trial for strangling another man. the guy on the right pleaded guilty last month to drug possession president obama hitting the road again to pressure congress to pass a gun

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>> shepard: less than four months after the newtown massacre, the connecticut state senate has passed what lawmakers call the strongest gun control bill in this country. members of both parties say they expect the house to pass it tonight. the governor to sign it

tomorrow. the bill requires universal background checks for every gun sale. it expands the state's assault weapons ban to cover more than 100 additional firearms. and it outlaws new magazines with more than 10 rounds of ammunition. if you already have higher capacity magazines, you can keep them but you have to register with the state. the white house says president obama will visit connecticut next week to call for congress to pass a national gun control bill. tonight, he was keeping up the pressure in colorado, another state that just approved new gun restrictions. ed henry is live in denver tonight with the president. do the aides say they are worried about losing momentum here. >> yes. dan pfeiffer said he is still optimistic he could get a deal. first time he suggested maybe they will come up empty-handed not just failing to get a ban on assault weapons but not even getting expanded background checks. dan pfeiffer blamed republicans on the hill but we should point out there are conservative democrats who are also not going

along with the president right now. that's why he was pushing hard to get this done. take a listen. >> this is not easy. and i will be blunt. a lot of members of congress, this is tough for them. because those who are opposed to any form of legislation affecting guns, they are very well organized and they are very well financed. but it can be done if enough voices are heard. >> now, obviously this is not the only issue the president is dealing with he still has to sequester that he has to deal with and the white house revealing today is he going to it take a 5% pay cut to show solidarity with the federal employees being furloughed. that's only $20,000 for him though because he makes $20,000 a year. >> on guns the president showdown with the lobbyists of nra which represents gun

manufacturers? >> now doubt about it they are launching a fierce campaign. even though the nra used to be supportive of background checks they are pushing the conversation instead a controversial plan to armour people inside schools. they say that's the answer instead of vast new gun control legislation. here is the nra. >> background checks, we all want to make sure that criminals, those that have been declared with mental issues, that they not have access. and that's a discussion in the country that will go on while the debate goes on, we're trying to do something about school safety. >> now, the president is keeping up this fight on monday. he will be going to connecticut, obviously another state that has been hit by gun tragedies. bottom line though, despite pulling on the heart strings, going to states like colorado and connecticut, he has an uphill battle on capitol hill. shep? >> shepard: ed henry in denver this afternoon. the feds say they can't be

sure how thousands of hurricane katrina and rita survivors spent almost $700 million of taxpayer money, officials say the cash was supposed to help people in louisiana evacuate their homes to protect them from the next storm. but investigators say the state doesn't have documents to prove homeowners ever did the work. and some actually use the money for something else. officials say they put tighter controls on federal aide for victims of other disasters. including super storm sandy which hit here in the northeast. a huge fire tore through the side of a 40 story building. sent chunks of that skyscraper plummeting to the ground. [explosion] >> shepard: that's russia in chets that, actually. that building was under construction and nearly empty at the time they tell us. no word of anybody hurt. investigators still trying to figure out how it started civil war tore

through this region. that sky strarp was built to signify the city's rebirth. the north korean army is warning the united states its military is cleared to launch a nuclear attack. that claim that the moment of explosion is fast approaching. it comes as the pentagon makes another big move in the specific. we will have those details ahead. plus. the broken leg seen around the world. today, i talked with the louisville basketball player, kevin ware about the horrific moment on the court. >> i kind of glanced down at my leg because of the coach's eyes, you know. he kind of looked like he seen a ghost or something he had never seen before. >> shepard: coming up, kevin ware will tell us how that bad break led to one of the greatest moments of his life. that's coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news as fox reports live tonight. she immediately triaged the situation,

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a statement telling fallon, quote: i hope you are as lucky as me and hold on to the job until you are an old guy. if you need me, i will be at the garage. of course, he has an enormous car collection in the garage. jimmy fallon said, quote: i'm really excited to host a show that starts today instead of tomorrow. i'm shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. north korea now claims it has notified the white house that it has, quote: ratified a merciless and dvd nuclear diversified strike on the united states. the warning comes hours an officials confirm to u.s. that the pentagon deployed missile system to the island of guam in the pacific. this morning the communist nation shut down one of the last remaining peaceful links it shares with its neighbor and our ally south

korea. for nearly a decade the two nations have jointly operated a factory in north korea, just right across the heavily militarized zone there. it's been one of the few rays of hope in an otherwise grim situation. today north korean troops refused to allow the south korean workers access to that facility. keep in mind north korea yesterday announced it is restarting a nuclear reactor, which it claims will produce fuel for more nukes. it's the top story at the bottom of the hour. and "the fox report's" correspondent jonathan hunt is on it from our newsroom. the u.s. military seems to be sending a very clear message with this build up. >> yeah. and the deployment of this missile defense system to the island of guam in the pacific just the latest part of that military buildup on the part of the u.s. shep, remember, the u.s. navy has already sent two destroyers. the uss decatur and the uss mccain to the western pacific on what they call a missile defense mission. there have also been the flights of those b-2 bombers which dropped dummy

bombs somewhere in the pacific not too far from the coast of north korea. all of this according to the defense secretary because north korea presents what he calls a real and clear danger. listen. >> it only takes being wrong once. and i don't want to be the secretary of defense who was wrong once. so, we will continue to take these threats seriously. i hope the north will ratchet this very dangerous rhetoric down. >> now, all of this sends a clear message to south korea too saying you don't need to act or react because we, the united states have your back, shep. >> shepard: jonathan, i mentioned that north korea shut off this north korean factory which it runs with south korea to south korean workers. how significant is that? >> well, it's significant in the sense that it is the last example really of cooperation between north and south korea.

remember, they have already shut down the military and humanitarian hotlines. and this was one place where north koreans worked alongside south koreans. and, this according to gordon chang, the north korean expert has the potential to become an even worse crisis over this kasson factory. listen. >> the next step is for them to prevent south koreans in the zone from going back to south korea. then it becomes a hostage crisis. and all of this is really on the way to april 15th, which is 101st anniversary of the birth of founder kim sun. we will see provocations up until then. after that god knows what happens. >> remember that date april 15th. a lot of experts including gordon believe that kim jong un the leader of north korea has backed himself into a corner and in a sense to prove himself has to back his words with actions. and in his mind, there might be no better date to do that than the 101st

anniversary of the birth of the founder of north korea. shep? >> shepard: jonathan hunt in new york tonight. jonathan, thanks. the louisville cardinals basketball player kevin ware says he will be back on the court this weekend with his team at the final four in atlanta. he won't be playing, of course, after he shattered his leg in front of thousands of fans and millions of television viewers on sunday, but doctors gave him the all-clear to travel with the team for its matchup against the wichita state shockers. ware, who now walks with the aid of some crutches even showed up at a news conference today with his coach. the injury sucked the energy from the arena during the cardinals game on sunday against duke. but louisville managed to overcome the loss ofware and win in a big way. and now we know it wasware himself who fired up his fellow cardinals as paramedics worked to immobilize his leg. i talked with him and he was very impressive earlier today on "studio b." i asked him what was going through his head. >> when i saw my leg, it was kind of like this can't

be real. like this isn't -- this isn't something you see every day. this is kind of like a movie scene in texas chainsaw massacre or something like that. just the seriousness of how injured i was, know. but i honestly never thought -- never thought at all that my leg was broke. that's the last thing i thought it would be. >> shepard: kevin, i don't your leg wasn't just broke. the bone was sticking up out of your leg. i have never seen anything like that. >> never ever. and just dealing with it the way i did i kind of commend myself because i don't want to see the video but just hearing how i did and how it broke i handled it the way i did. >> shepard: the way he handled it left an impression on his coach as well. >> it was a terrible sight to see. >> shepard: rick pitino was right there when kevin ware landed awkwardly on his right leg during an attempted block. the landing put intense pressure onware's leg

resulting in a compound fracture which pushed about 6 inches of bone right through his skin. >> at first i went to help him up and as i was getting ready to help him up, i actually didn't know what i was looking at for about five seconds. i said and then he saw my eyes and then he looked and he just went back oh my god. >> the injury silenced the arena and brought tears to the eyes of pitino and the other players. so you can only imagine what was going through the mind ofware's mother who was watching the game on tv. >> i actually >> and from that point the only words he uttered were "just win i'll be fine."

>> shepard: the coach said you just kept saying win that game. >> that was what was important for me. >> shepard: was your head some place else? >> honestly i felt no pain. luke came over there and said a prayer. while is he saying his prayer it was going through my mind like i could cry about it but these guys devastated and we end up losing this game possibly or my words could encourage these guys to go out there and get the job done. i just went into a mode where to like i had to get these guys back going. and the only words i could think of without any thought was i'm good. just win this game. i'm going to be fine. just win this game. >> shepard: they did win that game. and a leader was born leg up on the hardwood. ware says waking up from surgery and seeing rick pitino holding the regional championship trophy was one of the greatest moments of his life. he is 20 years old, a sophomore at louisville. he says he plans to play

again next year. doctors say that, of course, will depend on how well he heals and we hope he does. another big college hoops story today. this is not a good one. rutgers university has fired its men's basketball coach after espn aired a video of him verbally and physically abusing his players. it's from several practices over three years. shows coach mike rice pushing and kicking his players. even hurling them. sometimes at their heads. he could also be shouting homophobe bic slurs at some of them. now the x -- excoach says is he sorry for all of that. >> there is no explanation for what's on those films because there is no excuse for them. i was wrong. >> shepard: earlier i asked louisville's kevin ware about that video. he called it devastating to watch. >> i honestly feel like i couldn't be one of those kids getting attacked by a coach or even just being -- using the kind of language that he did to those guys, you know. it's not right. you don't treat people like

dogs because you don't know how those people might react to you. >> shepard: treat people like dogs. rutgers' president said the school's athletic director told him about that video months ago. at that time the school suspended the coach for three games, fined him 50 grand and ordered him to get anger management counseling. but now rutgers' university president says after seeing that video himself firing coach mike rice was the right decision. jodi arias was a strange person. that's a quote and it's not from investigators, attorneys, or even his former friends but, instead, from the father of the woman accused of shooting her ex-boyfriend, stabbing him 27 times with a kitchen knife and slitting his throat. jodi arias was in court for day 40 of her murder trial. she admits she killed him but claims it was in self-defense. she faces the possibility of a death penalty if jurors find her guilty. now some video has surfaced. video of police interviewing jodi arias' parents after they arrested her back in 2008.

it appears that the parents had already been seriously concerned about jodi's mental health. >> when she left the house she kind of looked strange. sometimes calm real sweet and call in a rage and, you know, just screaming at my wife. she did that for the last year and a half. >> shepard: jodi arias also told police that quite a few of her daughter's friends had called her and told her that jodi needed professional help. adam housley is live in our west coast news hub this afternoon. once again, adam, seeing video that paints a very different picture of this jodi arias. >> yeah, shepard, we found that video in the same room back in northern california in 2008 where she was getting interrogated where she talked about having makeup for a booking photo and she stood on her head. this video we uncovered came from that same room with her parents being interviewed by investigators. here's the way jodi arias'

mother responded when the investigators said we have a lot of information that suggests jodi arias committed this murder. take a listen. >> how could somebody, you said this, come back and just be normal? >> i don't know. and jodi has mental problems. jodi would freak out all the time. i had quite a few of her friends call me and tell me i needed to get her some help. one called me in the middle of the night and told me she needed help. >> that video came just long after she had been interviewed by some the same investigators. her mother as we know has been in court every single day sitting there in the front row. shepard? >> shepard: looking ahead, what, this same defense witness back tomorrow. >> she was only here half the day today. alice violet, she got sick today so she left half day. they there still hasn't been any cross-examination of her, shepard, just direct examination so far. >> someone who is abusive isn't just abusive.

>> right. >> someone who is abusive has wonderful traits as well. they are not just an abusive person. they have a thing about them that people love. >> using her expertise she is basing it on emails with jodi arias suggesting that travis alexander was an abuser. these are coming from jodi arias. there is no evidence showing that so far. >> shepard: shooting at fort knox army post in kentucky had the entire post on lockdown moments ago. so far no word on any victims. investigators till us they are searching the post. we're talking to reporters on the ground. updates coming right up. went with axiron, the only underarm low t treatment. axiron can restore t levels to normal in about 2 weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women, especially those who are or who may become pregnant

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no word of anybody hurt. the lebanese government has yet to respond. but there are tens of thousands of syrian refugees inside lebanon along with syrian army defectors and rebel fighters. back in sierra those fighters today claimed to have captured a very important military base near the birthplace of the antigovernment uprising. [gunfire] >> this is outside the city of dara where this two year civil war began. a conflict which the united nations reports had killed more than 70,000 people. james rosen is the news live in washington. james, let's start with the significance of this captured military base. >> well, this base, shep, is home to the syrian army's 49th battalion. and it follows the rebel seizure last month of an air defense base in the very same province. but the paradox here is that the worst things get for the syrian regime the worse things get for u.s. and allied interests.

something our ambassador to syria has struggled to impress upon all the neighboring countries. >> we want the iraqi government to understand that had has no interest in having an extremist government in syria and the longer the conflict continues, the greater the influence of extremists on the ground. >> indeed. the u.s. has degeneres designated the al nasa are a front. one of the battle confronting the regime off shoot of al qaeda, shep. >> shepard: james, we haven't heard from the syrian president for a while but now we have. >> the embattled leader spoke to a television network. that channel said the interview took place tuesday night in one of the presidential palaces of bashar al assad in damascus. it marked assad's first public appearance since rumors of his having been shot and/or killed swept the twitter sphere will 10 days ago. assad tore into the turkish prime minister for supporting the rebels

saying he hasn't given, quote, a sincere statement since the syrian crisis began. both the tv channel and its newspaper which assad also spoke to have r. affiliated with the turkish labor party which opposes him. >> shepard: james rosen in washington tonight. plans to visit turkey this weekend to talk about the crisis in next door syria. that's the word from the state department. the two countries share a border of more than 500 miles. u.s. officials say turkey is a key partner in supporting the syrian opposition and planning for life after president bashar assad. we're 1315 days from the next presidential election. ugh. and former secretary of state hillary clinton gave us one more reason to speculate about a possible run for the white house. campaign carl cameron is in next.

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>> shepard: former secretary of state, former first lady hillary clinton marking her first appearance since stepping down as secretary of state. you know what that means time to talk 2016, i know. last night secretary clinton spoke at an awards dinner for women's rights group she founded back in the 1990s. so did vice president joe biden, another possible 2016 contender. >> vice president biden and i have worked together okay so many important issues. one that is particularly close to his heart is the fight against domestic violence and i know what a personal victory it was for him to see the violence against women act reauthorized last month. >> there is no woman like hillary clinton. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> hillary clinton -- that's a fact -- whose declaration in china some decades ago that women's rights are human rights

still echos so forcefully around the world nearly two decades later. >> shepard: campaign carl cameron live in the d.c. newsroom. man, they are good buddies for future potential rivals. they go way back. >> they do. they have known each other and worked with nun another as joe biden said literally for decades. hillary clinton will turn 69 right before the 2016 election and joe biden would turn 74, a couple of weeks afterwards. clinton is already beginning to fill her calendar. she will start getting paid speeches later this month in texas. then in june she is going to give a big economic speech in the battleground industrial state of michigan. last night at this event demonstrators were outside. including some from a new super pac called ready for hillary which boasts 100,000 members just in two months of existence. they say they are getting about a thousand a day more. on that web page. mr. obama's former campaign manager from 2008 no less than david plouffe was quoted last week as saying

of clinton, quote: she obviously will be an enormously strong candidate. by far the most interesting candidate and probably the strongest candidate. for now, she and biden are friendly, but that's not likely to last, shep. >> shepard: probably not. do you think he would really run against her? >> well, he has been hinting about it since last year on the campaign trail before president obama's re-election. since then biden has been connecting with supporters in iowa and new hampshire. did he that over the course of the inaugural ceremonies. coming up later this week he is going to give a big speech at a major fundraiser again in michigan. the jefferson jackson fundraising dinner. in may he is going to take his fundraising and speech aphiing abilities to south korea -- south carolina. it will host the first southern primary in 2016. is he hitting all the bases. if clinton uns are some insiders say the vice president may not. the truth of the matter is they both know if they want to run and win. twice, it's time to get started right now.

carl cameron in washington tonight. bus went 30 feet off an overpass. that tops our news around the world in 80 seconds. brazil. crowds gathered around the scene in the center of rio witnesses say driver got in dispute with a passenger and that may have caused a crash. rio bus drivers reportedly hit high speeds often. even in residential neighborhoods. rescue workers took several people to hospitals. argentina. torrential rains caused flooding that officials blame for dozens of deaths. they say more than six inches fell on the capital cities of buenas air arrest. that's typical for the entire month. the storm also stranded carsz on highways and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. germany. cops evacuated buildings and homes around berlin's main strain station after

construction workers found a live world war ii era bomb. authorities also briefly diverted flights from the main airport. experts diffused the soviet device on the spot. they said there may be tens of thousands more unexploded bombs throughout the city. tourists flocking to arab shaps largest tulip garden in the himalayan garden. millions on display for the spring festival. some folks also enjoying a leisurely ride on a nearby lake. and that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. >> around the world is brought to you by powerful answers. >> continuing coverage of breaking news in this hour. a lockdown today at fort knox in kentucky. the new details on heightened security next. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's

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this afternoon's shooting at fort knox army post in kentucky. chief fox reporter correspondent jonathan hunt with us. jonathan. >> shep, we are hearing that the lockdown that was ordered earlier this afternoon at fort knox army post has been lifted but the post remains on what is called a heightened security alert. we have no details on whether this was a deliberate shooting or whether it could even, perhaps, have been an accidental discharge of a weapon. and we have no word on casualties yet. we are being told because of this heightened security there are long lines to get on and off the post. we can also tell you that the university of louisville hospital trauma center has not been alerted to any incoming patients. now, fort knox, obviously a huge army post sits on 109,000 acres. home to some 40,000 soldiers. family members and civilian employees. it's home to the army's human resources command, which is near where the apparent shooting took

place. home to several other units, all of which according to fort knox's web site make it quote the most multifunctional military base in the united states army. and tonight it remains on heightened security alert. shep. >> shepard: jonathan, thanks. and on this day in 1973, an motorola martin cooper made the world's first cell phone call to rivals at bell lab. mobile phones have been around in years in the military even in automobiles. those phones phones phones werd used big radio antennas to make the calls. then colleagues came up with new technology that made the phones truly portable. the prototype. it was 9 inches tall two and a half pounds had to charge 10 hours to get an hour and a half of use. it cost thousands of dollars. this year there are billions of cell phones out there. the father of the cell phone first cut the line 40 years ago today. and now you know the news